Journalism 105:

Newspaper Design

Vocabulary

large letter usually at the start of an article

small headline placed within an articlehelps the reader follow the article

3. Standing Head3. Standing Headtext that appears consistently in a publicationExamples: WHAT WOULD NEWMAN DO?, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, OPINION

Box that contains information, facts, and statistics

breaks up large amounts of text on a page featured next to an article

any map, chart or diagram used to analyze an event, object or place

spot on front page that lists the content that is inside the newspaper

the part on the front page that previews what is inside the newspaper

EARS

includes the name of all editors and staff as well as the address of the newspaper

** generally appears on the same page in each issue

the name of the publication, printed in large size on the front page

type at the top of an inside page giving the newspaper's name, date and page number.

a secondary story intended to be runnext to a major story on the same topic

Example: A story about a disaster may have a sidebar that tells what happened to a single victim.

the two connected pages in the middleof a newspaper (or a section of anewspaper)

an outline of a newspaper looks like a smaller

version of the finished publication

space available forjournalistic content The ratio of news to

advertising is ideally 60% journalistic content, 40% advertisements.

empty space on a page creates a separation

between articles and visual elements

more white space= more upscale publication

The empty space arounda visual element

17. Clean Copy17. Clean Copydraft of a newspaper that needs fewcorrections

18. Dirty Copy18. Dirty Copydraft of a newspaper that needsmany corrections

headline withhyphenation

19. widow/orphan: single word as the last line of a paragraph

20. river: words that are spaced too far from each other

aligning lines of text in adjacent columns (particularly within an article)

the vertical space between two or more body columns

line below a picture or photo that acknowledges its source

Do NowDo NowBelow are three definitions. Write down the names of the terms they define:

1.the empty space around a visual element

2.includes the names of all editors and staff

3.Located on the front page, it previews the content inside the newspaper

Fonts with strokes at the top and bottom of a letter

Fonts without strokes

A method of organizing content on a page into blocks (known as modules).

To span text from the leftmost to rightmost point in a column

White space bordering the page

The “continued on page ___” notation that indicates the article is “jumping” to another page

An excerpt from an article that appears within or beside an article in a larger font

a short name given to an article in production

What is the headline

of your most recently published

article?

33. Put to Bedwhen all work iscompleted and thenewspaper has gone topress

34. Morgue34. Morguea newspaper library

whereold newspapers are

stored

35. Filler35. Fillerextra material kept to fill white space